Here is everything Apple announced at its Worldwide Developer Conference 2017-February 2024-www.yitit.com

　　This story is part of our complete Apple WWDC coverage

　　Image used with permission by copyright holderWWDC — Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference — is a week-long convention showcasing the world’s most valuable technology company’s latest innovations. It is where the company demoed the Power Mac G5 in 2003, the iTunes App Store in 2008, and Apple Music in 2015, and it was no less newsworthy this year.

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　　How to rewatch WWDCWhat Apple announced

　　We head about Apple’s Siri-powered smart home speaker, a new iPad Pro 10.5, and big updates to all four operating system platforms: iOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and tvOS. Here is everything Apple announced during the WWDC keynote.

How to rewatch WWDC

If you missed the live-stream of the WWDC keynote address from the McEnery Convention Center on Tuesday, good news: Apple archived it for posterity. You will need to meet certain prerequisites to watch it, though.

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What Apple announced

iOS 11

Image used with permission by copyright holderApple gave an overview of iOS 11, the next major version of the operating system on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, at WWDC.

　　Perhaps the most obvious improvements are a redesigned app drawer and a new Control Center with more apps shortcuts, but other changes have to do with Apple’s core services.

　　The App Store has been completely redesigned. A Today tab shows a scrollable list of cards featuring new games, apps, and updates, and clearer demarcations between categories make apps easier to find. Also new is editorial content: Apple’s App Store curators will publish how-to guides and lists like App of the Day and Game of the Day.

　　Apple’s rolling out peer-to-peer payments with iOS 11 — you can send money to friends and family, and transfer money to your bank — and better syncing between devices. When you delete an old message in iMessages, for example, some of that conversation will now sync some of your conversation history in iCloud.

　　A machine-learning platform, which it Apple calls Core ML, lends a hand in other areas. It does palm rejection on the iPad and can recognize images six times faster than the Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy S8.

　　That same artificial intelligence powers Apple’s new augmented reality platform: ARKit. Using techniques like motion tracking, plane-finding, and ambient light estimation, iOS 11 devices can identify surfaces like tables and orient digital objects on top of them. A new Ikea app lets you sketch out the design of a living room, and a Lego Batman app lets you move blocks around on a table. (Pokémon Go will support ARKit later this year, Apple says.)

　　A new Memories feature uses AI to identify sporting events, weddings, and more, and Live Photos taps machine learning to trim down videos and use any part of them as a featured photo.

　　iOS 11’s new Maps, meanwhile, uses AI for indoor navigation for select locations, including 30 airports and eight cities. There’s lane guidance in turn-by-turn driving directions, and a new Do Not Disturb While Driving feature that switches off your phone’s screen when you’re driving.

　　Apple’s new iOS ships with enhanced home control. A revamped AirPlay — AirPlay 2 — supports multi-room audio on hardware from Polk, Bose, and Apple’s own Beats brand. And new developer tools — MusicKit — give apps access to Apple Music playback data.

　　The developer of iOS 11 is available now and it will launch publicly in the fall. Check out our guide on how to install it.

HomePod

Image used with permission by copyright holderApple unveiled an artificially intelligent, voice-equipped speaker to take on Google Home and Amazon’s Echo series: HomePod.

　　“Just like iPad reinvented music in our pockets, HomePod is going to reinvent music in our homes,” Apple hardware chief Phil Schiller said.

　　Apple’s Siri-powered speaker matches the competition’s feature set blow for blow. It looks a little like the Mac Pro and packs high-end hardware including seven speakers, “precision acoustic horns,” a four-inch woofer, and Apple’s A8 processor.

　　That is just the tip of the iceberg. Apple’s HomePod uses real-time acoustic modeling, audio beam-forming, and multi-channel echo cancellation to automatically adjust the sound to the space around it. And it works with an Apple Music subscription to play tracks directly from the cloud.

　　The HomePod, like Amazon’s Eco speakers and Google Home, supports voice commands with the help of Siri. You can follow up, “Hey, Siri,” with commands like, “Play Beats 1 Radio,” and, “Play I’m Poppy.” And at launch, HomePod will support news updates, messages, reminders, podcasts, sports, translation, stocks, weather, and more.

　　HomePod can control HomeKit devices, too, including Philips Hue bulbs and connected ovens from General Electric. You can ask it about the current temperature (“Turn the temperature to 73,”) or the lights (“Are the lights on?”)

　　Apple stressed that HomePod’s voice data is fully encrypted and that only voice data immediately following the “Hey, Siri” command is recorded.

　　The HomePod will ship for $350 when it goes on sale later this year, and come in two colors: White and space gray. It will go on sale in December first in the U.S., U.K., and Australia.

MacOS 10.13

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　　MacOS 10.13, the operating system that powers Apple’s iMac and MacBook lineup, finally has a name: High Sierra.

　　Performance is the focus. High Sierra ships with Apple’s new file system, APFS (Apple File System), which optimizes Flash/SSD storage and boasts features like strong encryption, space sharing, copy-on-write metadata, cloning for files and directories, and snapshots. And a new version of Apple’s low-level Metal graphics tool, Metal 2, boasts driver optimizations and support for virtual reality engines like Unity, Unreal, and Steam VR.

　　Even the web browser’s faster in High Sierra. It features the “world’s fastest browser,” Apple said, thanks to a feature that blocks auto-play videos and 80 percent faster Javascript performance.

　　MacOS High Sierra is available to developers now, and enters public beta in June.

iPad Pro 10.5 and 12.9

Image used with permission by copyright holderThe iPad Pro, Apple’s flagship tablet, received a major upgrade at WWDC.

　　The iPad Pro 10.5 and the iPad Pro 12.9 boast sleek, slim designs and revamped software with a focus on productivity.The tablets’ Retina displays, which have the same physical footprint as the iPad Pro models they’re replacing, feature narrower bezels and Apple’s True Tone technology, which automatically adjusts the color temperature based on surrounding lighting conditions. They also boast wider color gamut, as well as Pro Motion, a new innovation that uses a combination of software and hardware to improve the iPad Pro’s screen refresh rate from 60Hz to 120Hz.

　　Under the hood of the new iPad Pro 10.5 and 12.9 is Apple’s six-core A10X processor and 12-core GPU, a significant step up from the iPad 9.7’s processor. But despite the performance improvement, the new iPad Pro models last an impressive 10 hours on battery.